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Gaston Bachelard (French: [baʃlaʁ]; June 27 1884 – October 16 1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break (obstacle épistémologique et rupture épistémologique).

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birth date
1884-06-27
birth place
Bar-sur-Aube
death date
1962-10-16
death place
Paris
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Don Ihde, Alexandre Koyré, Louis Althusser, François Dagognet, Dominique Lecourt, Thomas Kuhn
influenced by
Émile Meyerson, Auguste Comte
main interest
Aesthetics, Education, Psychoanalysis, Literary theory, History and philosophy of science, Constructivist epistemology, Historical_epistemology
notableIdea
Epistemological rupture, Technoscience, Rational_materialism
philosophicalSchool
Continental philosophy
region
Western philosophy

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